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america was a consumer society so when the crises came or even before china was supporting, china in hits society with a lot of money was able to take u.s. debt because we were a consuming society. >> within the u.s. you have people who borrowed, okay. the person who did the wrong thing, namely take a mortgage when they should not have borrowed that much much money, okay. it's being bailed out when the person who saved money is now on the threat of high inflation to bail the other person out with a little bit of inflation. to me, there is a moral problem. there are two moral problems. no one, the innocent is paying for the mistake. the innocent the person who did the right thing is paying for mistakes of those who did the wrong thing and the second one we by borrowing, by running this now trillion plus deficit, we are transferring the risk to futuregen race. it may work out but they should not be the ones to bear, that's the romans held is that a child shall not be responsible for the sins of his father. >> charlie: so do you accept the principles of the deficit reduction a way to be
america was a consumer society so when the crises came or even before china was supporting, china in hits society with a lot of money was able to take u.s. debt because we were a consuming society. >> within the u.s. you have people who borrowed, okay. the person who did the wrong thing, namely take a mortgage when they should not have borrowed that much much money, okay. it's being bailed out when the person who saved money is now on the threat of high inflation to bail the other person...
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corporate america has record profits. it's not that we can't afford this. we need a shared sacrifice. work version shared. they've given up their jobs. they've lost their homes. they can't go anymore. it's time for to us come together and create jobs so that we can create the america that all of us love and is revered around the world. >> woodruff: rich tramp carc the president of afl/cio thanks for talking with us. >> thanks for having me on. i appreciate it. >> woodruff: as we do. and our invitation to governors remains open and we will bring that you perspective at a later date. >> brown: now, anger over insurance rate hikes and a battle brewing in california. "newshour" correspondent spencer michels reports. >> reporter: people got angry when blue shield of california announced recently it would raise health insurance rates for some individuals as much as 59%. it was the fourth major insurance company to announce sharp increases for those buying their own insurance and the third round of rate hikes by blue shield since last fall. >> how much is enough f
corporate america has record profits. it's not that we can't afford this. we need a shared sacrifice. work version shared. they've given up their jobs. they've lost their homes. they can't go anymore. it's time for to us come together and create jobs so that we can create the america that all of us love and is revered around the world. >> woodruff: rich tramp carc the president of afl/cio thanks for talking with us. >> thanks for having me on. i appreciate it. >> woodruff: as...
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the idea of eliminating funding for research across america, medical research? how can that make any sense whatsoever? a 10 or 20% cut in medical research at the n.i.h., saying to the national laboratories where critical research in energy efficiency is underway that we're going to basically close down half of their programs the remainder of the year? that's not a thoughtful approach to deficit reduction. >> woodruff: senator, do you think it's realistic to expect the republicans to come down from 57 or 60 billion where they are now to the freeze? >> i think it's realistic for them to sit down and bargain in good faith, to listen to us as we listened to them. to decide what is best for this economy. as i said if this is not bragging rights for the biggest number in cuts, then we've lost sight of our responsibility to make a serious judgment about whether a cut is important for the future of our economy or it is not. $100 billion in a short period of time doesn't show the kind of reflection and thoughtfulness the american people expect of congress. >> woodruff: s
the idea of eliminating funding for research across america, medical research? how can that make any sense whatsoever? a 10 or 20% cut in medical research at the n.i.h., saying to the national laboratories where critical research in energy efficiency is underway that we're going to basically close down half of their programs the remainder of the year? that's not a thoughtful approach to deficit reduction. >> woodruff: senator, do you think it's realistic to expect the republicans to come...
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to your lab must be some way to get them to reimburse him for the urban america practice sexually. in the wallace redirect the budget from the will because they were against the war in keep expanding the premise. that the big deal is there people who lost their spirits in november leave could be taken over him so we need to be needed to there with enthusiasm come april so it's in the state we have taken a man look at me and i'll lend you a little in in the world they can live the richest employ on the same day and we have big master registration build a campaign in the next one a slab we can make it's pavement it was caught so there will be a group around the country as a stand alone inspection with the. i and then it seems like it might actually even happen reverend jesse jackson thanks so much for being with us today thank you very much. now i want to go to somebody else with boots on the ground in madison lisa graves is the executive director at the center for media and democracy and formerly the deputy assistant attorney general in the office of legal policy of the u.s. justice
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for the wealth of america then peace symbol of tulip full of modern twenty billion dollars . all of the state budget deficits compare and then deal. flow into states. how can we best take these people on average as. well as the vix must be made accountable for taking a break the last must be some way to get them to reinvent and for the urban america back to expect rumors. in the woman must be direct to purchase from the will because they were just a lot and cheaper spending the planets. the deal is there people who lost their spirit in the lead the brown can be taken over and so we need to be needed to there we can do that and come april so it seems the state may have taken a mammogram ianal and get a little in in the was they can live the richest and good illustration they can be a big mess so you read descriptions go to champaign in the mix when a fire can make a statement it was caught so they will be heard around the country as a stand alone inspection but if they prefer it could be. and it seems like it might actually even happen reverend jesse jackson thanks so much for
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wisconsin we'll debate whether or not policy makers can learn anything from the still stalemate in america sterility. need to know this after nearly two weeks the labor protests in wisconsin are not slowing down in fact of picking up so the biggest crowds yet more than one hundred thousand people descend upon the state capitol in madison wisconsin on saturday to speak out against governor scott walker's ideological war on unions the largest demonstration that state since the vietnam war and the protesters were joined by crowds nationwide as move on dot org held rallies in every state capitol to show solidarity with the working people of wisconsin on sunday felice ordered people in the state capital in wisconsin to leave by four pm or risk of rouse but the deadline came and went with hundreds of people remaining camped out and those who stayed were allowed to sleep overnight there for the thirteenth night in a row back they were joined by many off duty police and firefighters police officers and firefighters meanwhile not to be out there on the billionaire koch brothers whose court. aeratio
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up this notion of nine eleven and this is something that also triggered a very deep partisanship in america and also allowed for the looting of america by our unfunded wars and this is the phenomenon we've referred to before where that famous psychological experiment where you're told to watch the black shirts in the white shirts playing each other in basketball and and you have to count the number of times they pass the basketball back and forth to each other and inspect experiment runs a gorilla most people don't see it and that's i think what we see in the global economy nobody ever sees bankers no running through the crime scene because we're too concentrated on whether or not how many muslims are getting into the country or how many red states are getting an unfair advantage or how many women union members are getting unfair advantage in the kleptocrats i'm talking about the koch brothers and scott walker in wisconsin play the divisive game they play the sectarian game red state blue state game to try to divide people and then once cowering in fear and they're losing their mojo in amer
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and how did make you feel to find out that the largest corporation in america pays no income tax thanks to an exposé in the new york times today we now know that it's true g.e. or general electric reported five point one billion dollars in profits from business done within the u.s. last year but they've paid zero income tax and in fact claim a tax benefit of three point two billion dollars so it's another example of corporate tax evasion joining the ranks of bank of america exxon mobil and we can only guess how many other companies out there are doing the same and it's all done through various strategies including lobbying g.e. is spent more than two hundred million dollars in the last ten years lobbying on tax reform she is also expanded its business abroad cutting one fifth of its workforce within the u.s. since two thousand and two placing their profits made here at home into offshore accounts and they also hire the best of the best including former i.r.s. and treasury officials for accounting purposes i'd say that it's pretty clear that our system needs reform and how do we go abou
and how did make you feel to find out that the largest corporation in america pays no income tax thanks to an exposé in the new york times today we now know that it's true g.e. or general electric reported five point one billion dollars in profits from business done within the u.s. last year but they've paid zero income tax and in fact claim a tax benefit of three point two billion dollars so it's another example of corporate tax evasion joining the ranks of bank of america exxon mobil and we...
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and you know i think he really had that on when you talk about corporate america very because even with this health care legislation that was passed obviously it's not perfect there are a lot of people out there who critique it but it just makes you wonder if anything that's going to get passed whatever really make a difference if we don't talk about corporate control in america the same way that was performed basically just allows the banks to skirt around that reform i feel like the same you know it's the same thing with health care the insurance industry's still went out at the end. yeah you're absolutely right the number one problem we have in this country right now is the fact that corporate america controls all ok they control the wealth they control all the legislation you know that is the number one reason why the power of the people is you know not being listened to because politicians are getting all of their campaign money from corporations you know big america didn't spend any money in two thousand and nine on federal taxes in fact the government paid big america back becaus
and you know i think he really had that on when you talk about corporate america very because even with this health care legislation that was passed obviously it's not perfect there are a lot of people out there who critique it but it just makes you wonder if anything that's going to get passed whatever really make a difference if we don't talk about corporate control in america the same way that was performed basically just allows the banks to skirt around that reform i feel like the same you...
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i think that what's really going to lead to the end of america art is things like citizens united i love how do i back or better they don't talk about that at all they don't talk about the fact that corporations now have the right to fund politicians with a limited amounts of money ok i think that that's what undermines our democracy and i think that's what will the bench will lead to the end of america but i love how they never bring that up they bring up the fact that they think health care providing little babies with health care is going to ruin the country i mean anybody who believes in these clowns or loses or these clowns there's just heartless individuals who don't really have their priorities straight. and you know i think he really had to when you talk about corporate america there because even with this health care legislation that was passed obviously it's not perfect there are a lot of people out there who are critique it but it just makes you wonder if anything that's going to get passed will ever really make a difference if we don't talk about corporate control in america
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economy currently and is the senior economist at the coalition for prosperity prosperous america. and welcome to the program thanks very much for having me on your show down very pleased to have you i thought your book free trade doesn't work was extraordinary. book review of it for buzz flashes and probably you know and i just it and i want to talk about it i want to talk about some of these issues. you have. in addition to. whatever academic background you you actually have some experience in the in the world of business and trade as it were well let me tell you how i came to write the book i was working a couple of years ago as a columnist in private practice consulting to mainly hedge funds private equity guys like that and i sort of get tired of helping guys who had frankly too much money make even more and off the same time i was becoming aware of developments in the academy that was making it possible to intellectually criticize free trade in a lot of ways that people be doing on a purely practical level for some time there was no way to make this intellectually legitimate
economy currently and is the senior economist at the coalition for prosperity prosperous america. and welcome to the program thanks very much for having me on your show down very pleased to have you i thought your book free trade doesn't work was extraordinary. book review of it for buzz flashes and probably you know and i just it and i want to talk about it i want to talk about some of these issues. you have. in addition to. whatever academic background you you actually have some experience in...
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so many of the things that would make america better searches and more choice an indication are for the nation teachers unions but even franklin roosevelt said that government you click people are going to have no place in america. jim de mint quoting f.d.r. i think that's going to explode in his tea party days don't seem to believe in democracy and would rather see corporations running the show and that's very very. crazy alert return to living down the poppy a three month old puppy named wall he was euthanized over the weekend like put to death due to overcrowding at an animal shelter in oklahoma after he was confirmed dead while he was tossed in the trash bin to be collector the next morning. but perhaps by divine intervention wally arose again the next day an animal control officer noticed some commotion in the trash bin and sure enough there was wally just as healthy as can be veterinarian is now caring for wally until a new home can be found for i'm so far hundreds of families have responded to wally's finder dot com profile i'm sure there's a reasonable medical explanation for wa
so many of the things that would make america better searches and more choice an indication are for the nation teachers unions but even franklin roosevelt said that government you click people are going to have no place in america. jim de mint quoting f.d.r. i think that's going to explode in his tea party days don't seem to believe in democracy and would rather see corporations running the show and that's very very. crazy alert return to living down the poppy a three month old puppy named wall...
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this is partisan this is math so why do republicans think wealth inequality in america is a good thing. this is an issue about republicans think wanting wealth inequality in the end i think what republicans conservatives are looking for is people to actually succeed on their own i mean look union membership has been on the decline for a number of years simply so has. no i don't really see it on their own the roads the public schools the infrastructure that we all benefit from is something that all companies and the country benefit and the workers benefit from it as well and the fact is that the tax code had shifted and helped chip chip thought well this kind of focus that people who are in big business and who are shipping jobs overseas and disadvantaging the workers that you know that that's ok that that's fine. the unions are the problem so much private sector unions are fine because leadership mutual counterweights you have the leaders representing the union members and on the opposite side you've got corporate representatives who is looking out for the shareholders but that dynamic
this is partisan this is math so why do republicans think wealth inequality in america is a good thing. this is an issue about republicans think wanting wealth inequality in the end i think what republicans conservatives are looking for is people to actually succeed on their own i mean look union membership has been on the decline for a number of years simply so has. no i don't really see it on their own the roads the public schools the infrastructure that we all benefit from is something that...
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in the back instead of the bad america gave a real chance for freedom in iraq and the soldiers fought bravely battle badly you know nobody i don't think wants to put down our soldiers leave the capability to people we don't know i don't know in the book apparently had died in this conflict and and what a conflict that was unnecessary it was a conflict that was absolutely unnecessary record nothing to nothing to do. and in any case i grew thomas jefferson when he said that we should have a national military draft and we should have local militias and everybody should be a member of that next week like switzerland does and he said i so i hope i shall never see a time when i live in a nation with higher lines in the military and with people poor people going into the military is the only job i don't think i'm going to hold ok all right the oregon state house passed a bill this week that requires computer techs to report any evidence of child porn you find a fix in someone's computer face up to your prison themselves isn't deputizing the geek squad a bad idea and what happened to fourth m
in the back instead of the bad america gave a real chance for freedom in iraq and the soldiers fought bravely battle badly you know nobody i don't think wants to put down our soldiers leave the capability to people we don't know i don't know in the book apparently had died in this conflict and and what a conflict that was unnecessary it was a conflict that was absolutely unnecessary record nothing to nothing to do. and in any case i grew thomas jefferson when he said that we should have a...
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strategy in america. lindsey lowe and. he's the preacher he's winning nothing people are suggesting she's done for no she says she's a star. alan . time now for the good bad and the insanely ugly good filmmaker charles ferguson ferguson a producer audrey mars won the academy award for best documentary film last night for an inside job a film about the two thousand and unanswered crisis and how the actions of a greedy few ruined the lives of the working class masses ferguson used as spotlight at the oscars to lament the lack of accountability on wall street three years later. i must start by pointing out that three years after own horrific financial crisis caused by massive fraud not a single financial executive is going to jail and that's wrong. well said at least those comments brought the issue back into the headlines today should be there every day but bad brian kilmeade he's become a regular on this list this morning on fox and friends with the words organized chaos plastered across the screen kilmeade pose this questi
strategy in america. lindsey lowe and. he's the preacher he's winning nothing people are suggesting she's done for no she says she's a star. alan . time now for the good bad and the insanely ugly good filmmaker charles ferguson ferguson a producer audrey mars won the academy award for best documentary film last night for an inside job a film about the two thousand and unanswered crisis and how the actions of a greedy few ruined the lives of the working class masses ferguson used as spotlight at...
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i am convinced that a failure to act in libya would have carried a far greater price for america. that's not the clip i was talking about but are you convinced that failure to act in libya would have carried a greater i can rarely be convinced that killing people first state purposes under whatever humanitarian guys you want to disguise it. is usually a bad decision in this case i reserve judgment until i see what it produces now you can say they took on all the chance because the odds on what it producing being better than what it thought follows i mean conceded that are pretty slim in my view but if it does then i have to say good decision if it doesn't or it's just neutral or it's a return to roughly the same thing disguised as something better then why would people why spend this money for something that accomplishes relatively nothing and those are all the questions of course and that's why people want a clear answer right now as to why strategy is water and go away as if you're already spending money do you think that by the way now defense cuts are completely off the table
i am convinced that a failure to act in libya would have carried a far greater price for america. that's not the clip i was talking about but are you convinced that failure to act in libya would have carried a greater i can rarely be convinced that killing people first state purposes under whatever humanitarian guys you want to disguise it. is usually a bad decision in this case i reserve judgment until i see what it produces now you can say they took on all the chance because the odds on what...
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just business of arianna huffington a woman who writes about the abandonment of the middle class in america as a more than just a little wrong some writers are now going on strike against the huffington post joining me from our studio in los angeles is bill last wrote the publisher and coeditor of visual art source bill thanks so much for joining us now if you could walk us through this story as to how you went from being ok with the huffington post unwilling to you know post material there without getting any profit from it to now wanting to strike against things in the post you know how did that happen was it the a.o.l. deal that really sealed it. in part last year when we were invited along with our writers my partner and i cater feller polled our writers and they indicated a willingness to we post our content that we publish and pay them for each week on the huffington post and exchange for the exposure that they would receive and after the sale to a a well some of our writers got in touch with us and expressed their dissatisfaction with that we took a closer look and in light of the po
just business of arianna huffington a woman who writes about the abandonment of the middle class in america as a more than just a little wrong some writers are now going on strike against the huffington post joining me from our studio in los angeles is bill last wrote the publisher and coeditor of visual art source bill thanks so much for joining us now if you could walk us through this story as to how you went from being ok with the huffington post unwilling to you know post material there...
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uncut supporters shut down the bank of america washington d.c. on saturday so this finally the start of european type activism in america to combat the g.o.p.'s reckless austerity measures for more on this i'm joined a studio by ryan clayton washington d.c. spokesman and co-founder of us uncut and via skype johann hari the contributor to the nation magazine ryan johann welcome both you know tom thanks for having us really return to the show thanks for being here. i'm curious first to light. i was going to give your your u.r.l. in there i was going to throw it in and suddenly it occurred to me i know it's dad or is it us uncut or is it just on it's us got a larger orgy have you got it seems like somebody took the dot com and turned it into some kind of right wing something i always had a long time ago that's not a problem word top of the google it's now ok. let me start with you johann what what does uncut me or to come from people in britain have been told by conservatives for the past few years ever since it's deal with this must have absolutely
uncut supporters shut down the bank of america washington d.c. on saturday so this finally the start of european type activism in america to combat the g.o.p.'s reckless austerity measures for more on this i'm joined a studio by ryan clayton washington d.c. spokesman and co-founder of us uncut and via skype johann hari the contributor to the nation magazine ryan johann welcome both you know tom thanks for having us really return to the show thanks for being here. i'm curious first to light. i...
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unions lead us to a less secure air travel in america here to offer his take on the issue map atterson contributor at pajamas media at welcome to the program great and i see you what is it that you hate about democracy. unions are democratic institutions in the workplace workplaces are not democratic well actually that's not true i mean i feel that the union movement in america has been very anti-democratic for a long time people like their leaders the they vote on their own rules they vote on whatever they're going to ask for whatever they're going to give up its majority rule out of what you're going to you mean much more democratic you're giving states senators in wisconsin who are elected to do a job who flee for them because they're union members not as a matter of a union. but they're fleeing democracy to pay their union masters and on to vote for this wisconsin whether they're not a member of a union first of all and secondly i don't know that it has in a do it or you know. masters union message if you don't think that by the way to either show we call scott which we call david
unions lead us to a less secure air travel in america here to offer his take on the issue map atterson contributor at pajamas media at welcome to the program great and i see you what is it that you hate about democracy. unions are democratic institutions in the workplace workplaces are not democratic well actually that's not true i mean i feel that the union movement in america has been very anti-democratic for a long time people like their leaders the they vote on their own rules they vote on...
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is with these workers because they realize that this is an issue but protecting the middle class in america so they're not having a lot of effect they got millions already trying to sway public opinion trying to bolster scott walker falling public numbers and it's not working so well it had an effect in the recall election i'm sure but as we're seeing in the hauling people are already taking that into consideration in democrats are far more energized than republicans i mean remember in two thousand and ten one reason it democrats got killed is because we did not turn out because liberals progressives democrats were not that excited about what the democrats had done the previous two years we're going to see that same dynamic but in reverse where democrats are really fired up their route they're willing to walk over broken glass to cast those votes republicans are feeling a little bit let down because they were promised. obamacare would be destroyed and that it would be eliminated in and all sorts of crazy things that were never never going to happen and so this is not a election that it's fa
is with these workers because they realize that this is an issue but protecting the middle class in america so they're not having a lot of effect they got millions already trying to sway public opinion trying to bolster scott walker falling public numbers and it's not working so well it had an effect in the recall election i'm sure but as we're seeing in the hauling people are already taking that into consideration in democrats are far more energized than republicans i mean remember in two...
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workplaces are not democratic well actually that's not true i mean i feel that the union movement in america has been very anti-democratic for a long time people like their leaders the they voted on their own rules they vote on on whatever they're going to ask for whatever they're going to give up its majority rule with your i don't know you mean much more democratic you're getting state senators in wisconsin who are elected to do it who flee for them because they're union members not a member of a union. but they're fleeing democracy to pay their union masters who don't want them to vote for this wisconsin whether they're not a member of a union first of all and secondly i don't know that it has any do with their union masters union message even though you don't think that by the way have either shall we call scott west or you call david coca scott walker's master well i mean you're of authority on poodles i'm just wondering why don't you have unions gave four hundred million dollars to democratic candidates in the two thousand election cycle would you hadn't it that that makes them a credi
workplaces are not democratic well actually that's not true i mean i feel that the union movement in america has been very anti-democratic for a long time people like their leaders the they voted on their own rules they vote on on whatever they're going to ask for whatever they're going to give up its majority rule with your i don't know you mean much more democratic you're getting state senators in wisconsin who are elected to do it who flee for them because they're union members not a member...
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sort of more than thirty years ago when a group of people who wanted to make radically remake in fact america radically may remake it for decades to come finally came to power in the united states with the presidency of ronald reagan these people were calling the radicals they used to call themselves birchers libertarians objectivists these radicals want to transform america from an egalitarian democratic society into a banana republic where the wealth is concentrated into the hands of a very very tiny group a very elite group of millionaires and billionaires how let me introduce you to a concept called starving the beast essentially what it means is cutting off government revenue by lowering taxes so that you can force the government at some future time when it's facing a massive budget deficit because of those lost tax monies you can force the very same government to cut spending the government in this case is the beast very biblical way and exactly what reagan started a very intentionally began the process of starving the beast. reagan cut taxes on the wealthiest americans from over sevent
sort of more than thirty years ago when a group of people who wanted to make radically remake in fact america radically may remake it for decades to come finally came to power in the united states with the presidency of ronald reagan these people were calling the radicals they used to call themselves birchers libertarians objectivists these radicals want to transform america from an egalitarian democratic society into a banana republic where the wealth is concentrated into the hands of a very...
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is no warren buffett america's plazas when you. look at these results from a new n.b.c. wall street journal for eighty one percent of americans this is you know what's the best way to solve the budget crisis right now eighty one percent of americans support taxing millionaires sixty eight percent of americans want the bush tax cuts repealed i'm super rich so this is wall street journal poll seventy four percent of americans want to cut subsidies to big oil producers because republicans are opposed to all of these ideas so how long until americans realize that the real extremists in our country are the republicans are totally out of step with them they were even if there were some extremists then why did so many republicans and getting elected into it over over and over onto the house side apparently all the american happens to be extremist if that's the case i mean let's not forget here there are a number of these wealthy americans that everyone likes to pick on there who are also very. we're here to also highering a number of people in the private sector who are also un
is no warren buffett america's plazas when you. look at these results from a new n.b.c. wall street journal for eighty one percent of americans this is you know what's the best way to solve the budget crisis right now eighty one percent of americans support taxing millionaires sixty eight percent of americans want the bush tax cuts repealed i'm super rich so this is wall street journal poll seventy four percent of americans want to cut subsidies to big oil producers because republicans are...
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extreme wealth inequality like we're seeing in america today is a sign of a diseased nation and unions play a big role in overcoming that disease over the past thirty years both here in the kingdom as richard wilkinson and kate pickett have documented in their book whose spirit level and their website. any quality try for you quality trust or the u.k. as unionization has collapsed and thus any quality increased a whole bunch of social ills have emerged and we just go through these really quickly first of all over the past thirty six thirty years we've seen union membership drop any quality has soared as you just saw along with that social mobility has collapsed social mobility means that. the class the socio economic class the amount of wealth that you're born into is pretty much the same that you'll die as a this nation used to be a nation where people could easily move up socially it no longer is we are one of the three most regina fide countries us the u.k. and singapore in the entire developed world whereas we used to be thirty years ago we were one of the five or six most mobile c
extreme wealth inequality like we're seeing in america today is a sign of a diseased nation and unions play a big role in overcoming that disease over the past thirty years both here in the kingdom as richard wilkinson and kate pickett have documented in their book whose spirit level and their website. any quality try for you quality trust or the u.k. as unionization has collapsed and thus any quality increased a whole bunch of social ills have emerged and we just go through these really...
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america i'm christine for zero will be back in an hour and a half. a charmer here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. world for. you the latest in science and technology from around. the few jerks covered. this is the kaiser report yeah you know the folks on wall street and around the world the banking industry love a good disaster is amazing they can issue trillions more bonds and pocket themselves billions more fees let's get some more details from stacy herbert max the first headline we see the true heart of disaster capitalist larry kudlow the values human life with the japan earthquake slick the human toll here it looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that and the human toll is a tragedy we know that but these markets are so all these markets right stocks commodities oil gold there is no major breakout or breakdown is the traders telling us what is very much a part of this is because oil is moving lower they feel as though this is good news for the u.s. larry kudlow and sa
america i'm christine for zero will be back in an hour and a half. a charmer here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. world for. you the latest in science and technology from around. the few jerks covered. this is the kaiser report yeah you know the folks on wall street and around the world the banking industry love a good disaster is amazing they can issue trillions more bonds and pocket themselves billions more fees let's get some more details from stacy...
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america. scary. series. one of what you saw was the worker right wing james o'keefe his previous exploits include dressing up like a pimp to bring down acorn dressing like a telephone repairman to bug the offices of senator mary u.s. senator mary landrieu he was arrested by the way for that one nearly ended up in federal prison like his republican cohorts in congress o'keefe decided n.p.r. was public enemy number one and set out to dress up like a potential fundraiser and see what kind of dirty could provoke with this amre and sure enough it worked so this the new way the right is trying to bring down their political opponents organizations that they simply don't agree with and more troubling is this the new norm of journalism in america for more on this issue i'm joined by jamie weinstein there be editor of the conservative leaning daily caller erica community democratic strategist welcome to both of you thank you for having let me let me first because i don't see this is much like a left right to beat thin
america. scary. series. one of what you saw was the worker right wing james o'keefe his previous exploits include dressing up like a pimp to bring down acorn dressing like a telephone repairman to bug the offices of senator mary u.s. senator mary landrieu he was arrested by the way for that one nearly ended up in federal prison like his republican cohorts in congress o'keefe decided n.p.r. was public enemy number one and set out to dress up like a potential fundraiser and see what kind of dirty...
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half one half is negotiating with the monarchy and the other half isn't you know this brings us to america wisconsin firefighter spark move your money moment. so on the day that the bill passed the wisconsin assembly effectively ending fifty years of collective bargaining in wisconsin hundreds of firefighters walked across the street from the wisconsin capitol and stood outside the marshall is lea bank and i bank and one by one they close their accounts and withdrew their life savings totaling approximately one hundred ninety thousand dollars so these hundreds of firemen and their one hundred ninety thousand dollars now the bank itself why they were targeting banks is this bank is one of the biggest backers of scott walker the governor and they the bank received two billion dollars in tarp funds they have not paid this back the bank is about to be sold off to canada into which of course. in this transaction something will happen that they'll never have to pay back the u.s. money laundering so this is why they protested this bank of course well it's the sound of want him clapping in other w
half one half is negotiating with the monarchy and the other half isn't you know this brings us to america wisconsin firefighter spark move your money moment. so on the day that the bill passed the wisconsin assembly effectively ending fifty years of collective bargaining in wisconsin hundreds of firefighters walked across the street from the wisconsin capitol and stood outside the marshall is lea bank and i bank and one by one they close their accounts and withdrew their life savings totaling...
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discuss mideast peace talks and what that report calls for once in today's tough economy it seems bank of america is doing just fine making billions in this bull market but there's new concern we may be headed for another financial meltdown and i give you my take on this bubble economy and what it means for you and me it's x.p. but first it's the video sting that's making headlines across the nation. thank you for national public radio vivian schiller resigned today she was in the middle of a controversy one day after an n.p.r. executive in charge of fundraising ronald schiller no relation by the way to vivian was caught on videotape calling some members of the tea party racists here's the video. i. think six to ten feet. recently. there are quite. scary. series. of what you just saw was the worker right where you had james o'keefe whose previous exploits include dressing up like a pimp to bring down acorn dressing like a telephone repairman about the offices of senator mary u.s. senator mary landrieu he was arrested by the way for that one nearly ended up in federal prison by his republican coho
discuss mideast peace talks and what that report calls for once in today's tough economy it seems bank of america is doing just fine making billions in this bull market but there's new concern we may be headed for another financial meltdown and i give you my take on this bubble economy and what it means for you and me it's x.p. but first it's the video sting that's making headlines across the nation. thank you for national public radio vivian schiller resigned today she was in the middle of a...
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mike is not an anomaly he's the start of a new trend in america the billionaires who thought they could take control of our country and sold off for profit right in an ether noses and are about to receive a rude awakening america is not for sale it belongs to us and when more people like mike step up and lead today's republican corporate republican party then we can officially put an end to this bad deal in america and put into place another new deal with the middle class all right well after the break i'll look into the fox news agenda and how it's hurting our country and i say everything. for. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you don't. charge is a big. earlier this week media matters uncovered an audiotape the fox news executive bill sammon this is a big big heavy hitting by admitting to a clear agenda of lying to discredit president obama in the weeks leading up to the two thousand and eight election. i have to admit that i w
mike is not an anomaly he's the start of a new trend in america the billionaires who thought they could take control of our country and sold off for profit right in an ether noses and are about to receive a rude awakening america is not for sale it belongs to us and when more people like mike step up and lead today's republican corporate republican party then we can officially put an end to this bad deal in america and put into place another new deal with the middle class all right well after...
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and american muslims are the target in his scope so how will dividing america make it stronger. you need to know this things are getting personal in wisconsin yesterday koch brothers lapdogs scott walker called out the democratic state senate minority leader mark miller for sabotaging negotiations between the two parties and one of the filibustering democratic senators spencer coggs responded by saying that all the democratic senators are firmly behind their leader mark no there are reports yesterday that filibustering democrats were willing to negotiate a return to wisconsin but walker rejected those negotiations calling them ridiculous it's like republicans and democrats are still at an indefinite standoff over what to do in wisconsin but with the majority was consonants and americans firmly in support of public unions collective bargaining rights is the time for walker to throw in the towel joining me now with more on this issue is one of those wisconsin democrats who are taking a stand state senator chris larsen senator walk of the program. thank you so much for having me th
and american muslims are the target in his scope so how will dividing america make it stronger. you need to know this things are getting personal in wisconsin yesterday koch brothers lapdogs scott walker called out the democratic state senate minority leader mark miller for sabotaging negotiations between the two parties and one of the filibustering democratic senators spencer coggs responded by saying that all the democratic senators are firmly behind their leader mark no there are reports...
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hikes during a recession see to make up for monetary banking crashes we've had all those happen in america and beyond that what would happen to the bush family i mean george w. bush was born with millions of dollars home government about the bush years are over with government yet i mean. don't don't people need a aaa rated investment that is our government the issue the issue is. the national i'm actually glad you raised that because in the past two years we've corrected more debt than the first one hundred congresses can. this isn't ronald reagan plan he tripled our national debt in eight years him and george bush and we've got ninety nine point seven trillion of this fourteen trillion and run it by republican presidents it is absolute in the republican plan and now you guys come along just like judas keep predicted nine times out we're told the last two years that that was a unified democratic government that republicans were in control i'm talking to you are you know i'm a deficit so i thought you were talking about debt deficit adds to debt they're the same thing are gathered at the s
hikes during a recession see to make up for monetary banking crashes we've had all those happen in america and beyond that what would happen to the bush family i mean george w. bush was born with millions of dollars home government about the bush years are over with government yet i mean. don't don't people need a aaa rated investment that is our government the issue the issue is. the national i'm actually glad you raised that because in the past two years we've corrected more debt than the...
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press show and author of numerous books his most recent toxic talk how the radical right is poison america's airwaves and jenny weinstein get the deputy editor at the daily caller welcome guys let's get started thank you governor walker use the nuclear option this week passing his union destroying legislation with zero senate democrats present and against popular will of wisconsin knights and people all over the country but what is the republican union busting agenda really about is it about a one party rule be the death of democracy see president obama not being reelected in two thousand and twelve or d. all of the above well actually i think it's a different one than you mentioned it's to help the union these legislators the democratic state legislators who escaped illinois go back to their families scott walker just wanted to pass this bill so he could reunite the democratic legislators with their families he's an altruistic he knew it was it was but you know second second secondarily of course he was trying to save wisconsin's economy and state budget from collapse from catastrophe so th
press show and author of numerous books his most recent toxic talk how the radical right is poison america's airwaves and jenny weinstein get the deputy editor at the daily caller welcome guys let's get started thank you governor walker use the nuclear option this week passing his union destroying legislation with zero senate democrats present and against popular will of wisconsin knights and people all over the country but what is the republican union busting agenda really about is it about a...
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also visited cairo when we were there and soon after all the thugs appeared again well i don't get is america spends what a trillion or have two trillion here on military take more than half the tax take and spend it on military toys they occupy countries all over the world they send unmanned drones into pakistan afghanistan iraq kills civilians left and right. they've got a clear target in tripoli one unmanned drone take them out but they say you know we have to equivocate on this we need to deliberate on this so is it just as tony blair would suggest you only lift a finger to do anything in this world if you get a big payout from the oil industry and that's it shameless well there is a huge you know interconnected financial link between libya and europe so perhaps that's why he's not doing that but in bahrain the saudi troops cavemen the day after the largest protest in bahrain in which they shut down the financial district so that is always very important to whether or not for intervention arrives people are waking up to the fact that the true terrorists are the bankers and unless you take
also visited cairo when we were there and soon after all the thugs appeared again well i don't get is america spends what a trillion or have two trillion here on military take more than half the tax take and spend it on military toys they occupy countries all over the world they send unmanned drones into pakistan afghanistan iraq kills civilians left and right. they've got a clear target in tripoli one unmanned drone take them out but they say you know we have to equivocate on this we need to...